PEOPLE go to the polls today to decide who will run Bexley Council for the next four years and who will be the borough’s three new MPs.
Polling stations will open at 7am and close at 10pm and people should have received two polling cards, a white one for the general election and a yellow one for the borough elections.
The count is being done at the Crook Log leisure centre in Brampton Road, Bexleyheath.
The general election count will be first, with the results expected at about 5am tomorrow.
The count for the council elections will begin tomorrow afternoon and the results are expected at around teatime.
There are nine Parliamentary candidates standing in Erith and Thamesmead and Old Bexley and Sidcup, and seven in Bexleyheath and Crayford.
In the council elections, 63 seats are up for grabs, with the largest number of candidates, 14, standing in Sidcup’s Longlands ward.
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